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☆ Ballot drop box fires under investigation in Oregon, Washington
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Nicole Chavez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Authorities are investigating after at least two ballot boxes were set on fire Monday morning in the Portland, Oregon, area. Police responded to a call about a fire in Portland about 3:30 a.m. Monday, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement. An “incendiary device” was placed inside the box and security personnel extinguished the fire, officials said. A second ballot box was set on fire early Monday morning at a bus station in nearby Vancouver, Washington, according to the Vancouver Police Department. When officers arrived, they found a “suspicious device” next to the box, which was smoking and on fire, police said.

Persons: Laura Shepard, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Donald Trump, Republican Joe Kent Organizations: CNN — Authorities, Police, Portland Police Bureau, CNN, Vancouver Police Department, Transit Center, KPTV, Congressional, Rep, Democrats, Republican, Green Beret, Phoenix Police Department Locations: Portland , Oregon, Portland, Multnomah, Vancouver , Washington, Clark, TRAN, Vancouver, Washington’s, Phoenix

☆ Take a look at the revolutionary housing developments Canada's First Nations are building on ancestral land
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Dan Latu | Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Canada's First Nations are constructing dense new housing in the country's most expensive city. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementCanada's First Nations are breaking new ground with several major housing developments in the city of Vancouver. One project minutes away from downtown Vancouver, being built by the Squamish Nation, will include 11 towers and 6,000 housing units. Take a look at these projects and the future of housing in Vancouver.

Persons: —, Brennan Cook, Cook Organizations: Service, Business, Nation, Nations, MST, Corporation Locations: Canada, Vancouver, —, Squamish, Waututh

☆ A New ‘Holy Grail’ in the Housing Crisis: Statewide Rent Caps
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( David W. Chen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For the last 10 years, Dominique Horn has worked for a community health organization in the fast-growing city of Vancouver in Washington State, helping people squeezed by soaring rents to try to avoid homelessness. Sometimes she wonders if she’s going to be her agency’s next client. With her husband struggling at times to find work, Ms. Horn has maxed out her credit cards to keep pace with the rent. The couple and their two children have moved so many times that she keeps sentimental items like photos and heirlooms boxed up, because no place feels like home yet. “I’m just in a constant state of waiting for the other shoe to drop,” said Ms. Horn, 42, whose current lease expires in May.

Persons: Dominique Horn, Horn, heirlooms, “ I’m, ”, “, Ms Locations: Vancouver, Washington State, Washington, Olympia

July 15 (Reuters) - Rare twin strikes by Hollywood actors and film and television writers are casting a pall over British Columbia's creative industry, which has become a hub for American film and TV production. Film production in British Columbia is down to "a trickle," said Gemma Martini, Chair of the Motion Picture Production Industry Association and CEO of Martini Film Studios. TAKING A TOLLReverberations that started on May 2 with the writers' strike grew in British Columbia, where most productions have American components. First the business was hit by the writers' strike: "Because no scripts are being written, people aren't coming to scout our locations." The Hollywood strike could affect the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), set to open in early September.

Persons: Gemma Martini, Synnove Godeseth, Godeseth, Martini, Oscar, Anna Mehler Paperny, Divya, Denny Thomas, Grant McCool Organizations: Hollywood, Industry Association, Martini Film Studios, Creative, Vancouver Economic, Toronto, Film, Thomson Locations: Canadian, Vancouver, North America, British Columbia, Los Angeles, British

☆ Our bodies, buildings, and computers give off a lot of waste heat. Cities and scientists are learning to harness it for energy.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Green pipes in the Neighbourhood Energy Utility energy center divert sewage to heat pumps. Data centers can heat homes tooAcross the ocean, Stockholm is tapping into a major heat source: data centers. They found that in about 25% of those places there was enough heat underground to recycle for energy. Benz says it's worth considering adding those underground pipes as part of new construction, especially building new streets, which absorb extra heat. Of course, underground heat builds up the most in summer, when people don't need to heat their homes.

Persons: Derek Pope, Pope, Johanna Nerell, Nerell, Yui Mok, Susanne Benz, Benz Organizations: Green Tech, Service, US Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, City of, Winter, City Council, Stockholm, Nature Communications, Reuters Locations: Europe, Canada, Glasgow, London, Vancouver, City, City of Vancouver, Vancouver , British Columbia, Stockholm, Mongolia, Islington

☆ Fact Check-Vancouver speed gates not part of ‘15-minute city’ proposals
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Yellow speed-reduction gateways in Vancouver are not part of the city’s “15-minute city” proposals. Although the city is implementing its version of the 15-minute city concept (here), the spokesperson said, the “15-minute City Ready” stickers were not applied to the concrete blocks by the City of Vancouver. Local reports about the yellow traffic calming tools (here, here and here) do not include any reference to 15-minute city proposals. Vancouver’s yellow gateways are a local government program for speed reduction and not part of the city’s 15-minute city proposals. Stickers referencing the 15-minute city concept were not applied or authorized by Vancouver officials.

☆ Why Faulty Streetlights Are Turning Cities Purple — and Why It's Worrisome
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

LED streetlights are supposed to shine for the better part of a decade. Every city with purple lights that responded to my queries or has public records on the matter bought its LED lights from Acuity. The blue LED, with its narrow wavelength, enabled all sorts of modern tech, from the compact disc to flat-screen monitors. Acuity and the purple cities haven't been entirely transparent on that matter. "The purple streetlights are a result of the phosphor coating delaminating from the LEDs," says Fiona Hughes, a representative for the city of Vancouver.

☆ Dispensaries selling illegal magic mushrooms in Vancouver could lead to the legalization of the substance, like they did with cannabis, shop keeper says
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-05 | by ( Gabrielle Bienasz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

He's trying to push Vancouver to manage or legalize it, as cannabis sellers did in 2015. Larsen told the Vancouver Sun that Canada would not have legalized cannabis without store owners like himself, who sold cannabis before it was legal. Now, he's betting that selling the substance will push the government to go ahead and make it legal. Canada legalized cannabis in October 2018, but the illegal or semi-illegal market in Vancouver persisted, especially because of licensing issues. As of November, there were multiple stores openly selling mushrooms in the city, in one case as a way of making up lost pandemic revenue, according to the Daily Hive Vancouver.

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